Dear Internet friends,
I think you’re swell.
But please cease and desist pumping every single Twitter update, Flickr photo, blog entry, comment on your blog entries, YouTube video posting, comment on other people’s blog entries you made, Delicious link, comment someone made on a post you made 3 years ago about some web service that doesn’t exist anymore, rss feed, and live streaming video update on what you are currently eating/drinking into every single social media tool on the planet that we are linked with.
Feed your Twitter updates into Facebook; everyone does that. But for the sake of humanity — end it there.
There’s this fantastic thing called FriendFeed that you can dump your whole life stream of links into and we can be friends there. I can marvel at all the fantastic things you do/eat/drink there.
Or if you must turn a fire hose on innocent bystanders, follow Kottke’s advice and offer a ‘real friends’ profile and a ‘fire hose/marketing/spam’ profile. I’ll take the former.
Please stop spamming me or we’re not going to be friends anymore.
Thanks,
Will
August 27, 2008 at 1:24 am
Here, here.
A couple of funny things come to mind for me. First, I even hate people pumping their Twitter updates into Facebook — it seems like the wrong place for those kinds of updates. The other thing? FriendFeed and its popularity is bizarre to me. Wasn’t it just a couple of years ago that people were staging a virtual “revolution” against the News Feed in Facebook?
August 27, 2008 at 7:59 am
Well said!
As a subcategory for this, I’d like to add a motion to ban the use of all smiling/winking/bewildered/etc. emoticon faces made with punctuation marks.
August 27, 2008 at 9:17 am
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
@Justin I have to partially agree with you but we can’t totally banish them. Emoticons the backbone of emotion on the Internet! Without them industries will fail, people will die and we will only be left to ALL CAPS TEXT THAT SEEMS LIKE SCREAMING Or ThIs CrAzY RaVeR StYLe CrAp ThAt MaKeS mE WaNt tO tHrOw cHaIrS!
August 27, 2008 at 9:53 am
I’ll get behind you on this one, Will, but only if you follow me on Twitter. :p
August 27, 2008 at 11:27 am
I liked your RSS feed more before it had del.icio.us links in it. That’s what my del.icio.us account is for.
August 27, 2008 at 12:44 pm
@Adam
@Adam Done!
@Albert Thanks for your comment. Just so you know, there are several options for Journerdism feeds available here: http://www.journerdism.com/rss-2/
The one you probably want is just the commentary (blog posts):
http://feeds.feedburner.com/JournerdismCommentary
I’m sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for reading!
August 27, 2008 at 5:58 pm
my other peev is bloggers using their blogs to tell us they’re on holiday, or their going to some conference…or even ranting about what their pet peeves are!
August 27, 2008 at 6:03 pm
@myles lol Yea, I can’t stand that either.
August 27, 2008 at 7:11 pm
So can we use *your* blog to announce that we’re on holiday or at a conference?